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## Company profile

Vanguard Cyber Security acts as a specialized defense consultancy auditing enterprise cloud architecture. Within the STACKIT Cloud Framework ecosystem, Vanguard develops reproducible security blueprints that embed automated shifting-left guardrails (static code analyzer, container image vulnerability scanning) directly into continuous deployment structures.

## Consultant profile

### Key facts

- **Role:** Lead DevSecOps / Cloud Penetration Tester
- **Cloud Experience:** +6 years focusing on cloud infrastructure path analyses
- **Specialization:** Vault secret management, infrastructure scanning, and network policy hardening

### Technical core competencies

#### DevSecOps implementation & cloud hardening

- **Automated Secret Auditing:** Zero-leak pipeline integrations using secure dynamic credentials with HashiCorp Vault on STACKIT VMs.
- **Network Micro-Segmentation:** Construction of isolated networks with VPC security group rule sets and strict firewall matrices.

#### Security analytics & incident prevention

- **Static & Dynamic Analysis (SAST/DAST):** Integration of auditable automated scanners into enterprise code repositories.
- **Container Hardening:** Configuration of minimal `distroless` base images and secure run contexts inside Kubernetes environments.